To ask your occupation and how much you earn....

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Just being nosey!

Solicitor, work 4 days per week, and I think you should all guess what I earn. I guarantee you'll get it wrong (sadly for me!)

arcadia I'm a junior partner. 13 years PQE.

Marketing analyst (but in a specialist area), with 14 years experience. £91K. Started on £16K and moved firms every two years or so. Well actually £0 at the moment as am still on mat leave, but back to it next month.

£15,000 for half the week working for a charity.

I think teaching sounds like the hardest job in the world so they deserve every penny they get.

Also bewildered that we (as a society) value our nursery workers and midwives so low, they should be paid their weight in gold!!

Sarahplane: I started as a volunteer at the Citizens Advice Bureau and got trained up as a generalist advisor there. I got a Certificate in Generalist Advice Work which is equivilent to a NVQ.
I got a paid job as a generalist advisor for a few years, then a promotion to the specialist Welfare Rights Unit.

Since then Ive left the CAB and worked for a Law Centre and currently a local authority.

Just started the Tax Professional Development Programme at HMRC - graduate scheme basically. £27k, will increase to around £32k after the first 2 years and on finishing the 4 year programme will lead to a senior role with salary starting at £47k. Regular hours, no encroachment on family life, flexible, lovely people and no stress.

Previously was a solicitor in a niche firm earning £25k for 4 days. Prior to DCs was magic circle solicitor, paid £86k plus bonus (£15k) in the last year I was there. Much much much happier now.

I can't say specifically what I do as it would 'out' me to some Irish posters but it involves research and writing and I earn around ?50,000 (euro) a year.

I don't know why some posters got so arsey with the OP. The title of the thread made it perfectly clear what she was asking. People were free not to open it and partake.

City-based legal PA (in US law firm). £41k

I work in HR and earn just under £40K per annum, this is in alarge corporate company though.

International School teacher (HOD) - 50k (Tax Free).

I am a part time childminder so it depends on how many children I have. At the moment I look after 2 children one day a week so that's £7 an hour. I also work at asda part time on £7.07 an hour and I do 11hrs a week plus over time.
My dh earns just over £60k

I'm a teaching assistant in a sn school. I earn around 17k a year.

Accountant, £65k pa until I became a sahm. Hoping to work part time in small practice soon though...

scientist 65k

I work as a single area specialist in an IT department for a large company. 12 years experience. Would be earning 43K if I was full time, but I only do 25 hours per week.

This thread has made me glad I chose to be a dentist and not a doctor. If I have a child interested in medicine I will encourage them into dentistry as well.

Even the dental hygienists I know are making more than some of the doctors on this thread.

17k as a teaching assistant? Is that because you are in a SN school? I expect you earn your money, it's not enough for the job but much more than in mainstream schools.

£168 a week as a local authority foster carer, 24/7. Hugely rewarding and challenging work but the money is deemed an allowance, we are essentially voluntary workers.

i used to work in the NHS as a midwife with weekends, nights etc i was on circa 28k. I quite when dd1 was 19 months old as never saw my children.

I stayed at home until the breakdown of a marriage and then returned to work in a 9-5 office role after 3 years working for the same company i am now accounts director and on around £58k. In he last few months i have had a significant salary increase due to the promotion and it has made all the difference ot fmaily life, both financially and in terms of time able to spend with them. I can now work flexi time and work from home as long as i meet and update with each member of my team and am in phone contact between 8.30am and 7 pm.

Whilst i wouldnt say that i love my job, and i miss midwifery a lot, I can;t see there being anythign better out there for us as a family right now. I cna even go on holiay with the children and as long as still contactable it doesnt have to come out of my holiday allowance!

Yes it's because its sn school, and its in London. I am really lucky to be paid this amount, even for a sn school.

I work in shipping insurance in admin 23k for 4 days.

My dentist got an MSc in ecology. Swift return to dentistry when she realised how poorly ecologists get paid.

Glad to hear that you are at least paid some of what you deserve then Ihear....I know TAs on not much more than minimum wage.

I'm a foster carer and writer. I'm not in the UK, but earn the equivalent of £27,000.

Really interesting thread.